Great ingredients make for great meals. Whenever you can, use the highest
quality supplies for your recipes. The flavor difference will always come
through in your finished dish.

If there is an ingredient that you are not familiar with, check our
Ingredient section. There are pages and pages of information about
the ingredients used in my recipes.

Ingredients

Egg Sizes

Size does matter. For the most part the eggs that you buy
in the store come in 3 different sizes – medium, large and extra-large. Most
recipes, including the ones on this site, are written using large eggs. Just
as important, the nutrition information is based on large eggs and using an
extra large egg has about 20% more nutrients (including calories, fat and
cholesterol).

With baking or making desserts this is key because these
recipes are basically chemistry and success depends on exact amounts of
ingredients. If you are out of large eggs and need to use another size, here's
a rule of thumb for substitution: 5 large eggs = 4 extra-large eggs = 6 medium
eggs.